Peter Engelbert Rübel

Peter Engelbert Rübel (born November 1, 1736 in Barmen ; † June 10, 1800 in Elberfeld , both today districts of Wuppertal ) was the mayor of Elberfeld.

Rübel was born as the son of the Barmer merchant Engelbert Rübel (1694–1775) and his wife Anna Elisabeth Kohl (1705–1738) from Solingen. Rübel's grandfather once moved from Elberfeld to Barmen to open a bleaching factory there, which his father then led to great prosperity. Rübel ran the bleaching factory on a large scale and acquired citizenship in Elberfeld on March 7, 1767. He built several slate houses.

Rübel married Anna Margareta Wortmann (1736-1807) on August 26, 1769, with whom he had a daughter who, however, died in 1774 at the age of four. He was a commoner in Elberfeld in 1771, 1773 and 1775 and a councilor in 1772 and 1776. Since 1771 he had been unsuccessfully proposed for the office of mayor five times until he was actually elected in 1786. In the following year he was rotated city judge and in 1788 he was again a councilor. He was also a lay judge at the city court in 1788.

literature

• Edmund Strutz : The pedigree of the Elberfeld mayors and city judges from 1708–1808 . 2nd Edition. Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1963, ISBN 3-7686-4069-8 , p. 150 f .

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Rüttger Siebel	Mayor of Elberfeld 1786	Peter Wilhelm von Carnap